Additional guidance
Practical guidance
- 5 steps to risk assessment [135kb]
This free HSE booklet aims to help you assess health and safety risks in the workplace. There is also a blank template [49kb PDF] with the booklet that you can use to record a risk assessment. However it is not necessary to use this template as long as you keep a written record of the significant findings of your assessment.
Other useful references
- Introduction to health and safety [414kb]
This booklet shows you the kind of things which cause the more common accidents and harm to people's health. It lets you see what applies to your work activities, and tells you how you can get more help and information.
- Essentials of health and safety at work
This booklet explains what the law requires and helps employers put it into practice. Chapter 1 suggests how to tackle the basics of health and safety, also how to identify, assess and control the activities that might cause harm in a business. Chapters 2 to 25 are for anyone who needs to know more about a particular health and safety subject. There are several new chapters dealing with, slips and trips, work at height, contractors and agency workers and general fire safety, as well as new sections on subjects such as stress, rehabilitation and sickness absence.
- Leading health and safety at work [450KB]
This guidance will help directors ensure that health and safety risks involved in an organisation's activities are managed properly and that they take adequate measures to protect their employees, employees of contractors and members of the public. It is aimed at all the members of top-level management who provide strategic leadership and direction in running any business or organisation.
- Successful Health and Safety Management
Provides guidance for directors, managers, health and safety professionals and employee representatives who want to improve health and safety in their organisations. Available from HSE Books.
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Guidance produced by other organisations
Volunteering England supports HSE's Risk Management campaign
The national volunteering development agency in England is calling for excessive risk management to be challenged as it is stopping potential volunteers coming forward. Volunteering England has commissioned research 'On the Safe Side', that revealed that over one million volunteers have considered stopping volunteering through fear of legal action. In response Volunteering England has launched a 'Risk Toolkit' for volunteer-involving organisations.
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